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a plan is jack lew's a signal from obama that he will pursue the course he pursued in the first term, to spend as much as he needs to establish the entitlement state and tax at a higher level to pay for it. jack lew is exactly the kind of liberal historically who has been his warrior on the front in negotiating on this. there is no indication that lew would go in any other direction, and it is clear to me that by this series of agreements obama has made, unlike added a first term more features people of independent stature, he has gone from a team of rivals to team of underlings. >> well, that is one nomination, but the nomination of former srepublican senator chuck hagel to head the department of defense has generated heat and light. zbigniew brzezinski, general john johns, brent scowcroft, as well as colin powell and former defense secretary bob gates. the senate has rejected only nine cabinet nominees to will chuck hagel be the 10th? >> i don't think so. i thought he would have an easier time that he has, but when all is said and done, there are lots of people from the bush adminis
a plan is jack lew's a signal from obama that he will pursue the course he pursued in the first term, to spend as much as he needs to establish the entitlement state and tax at a higher level to pay for it. jack lew is exactly the kind of liberal historically who has been his warrior on the front in negotiating on this. there is no indication that lew would go in any other direction, and it is clear to me that by this series of agreements obama has made, unlike added a first term more features...
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spending you propose will hurt middle class families. it will cost them their raises cost them their benefits, it may even cost some of them jobs. and it will hurt seniors because it does nothing to help save medicare and social security. hardworking middle class americans who don't need us to come up with a plan to grow the government, they need a plan to grow the middle class. >> question, was rubio for the gop? tim? >> he moved in the right direction. i don't think it was a great response. he moved in the right direction because you heard when he was criticizing government he wasn't saying oh it is taking p money from hardworking people and giving it to the p undeserving, he was saying government is keeping you down. government regulations are making it harder for someone to start a new business, you or the person who might hire you. government breeding dependency and keeping the regular person down. i thought rhetoric. >> why was he chosen? >> why? because he might be the presidential nominee in four years. he is young has sort of a
spending you propose will hurt middle class families. it will cost them their raises cost them their benefits, it may even cost some of them jobs. and it will hurt seniors because it does nothing to help save medicare and social security. hardworking middle class americans who don't need us to come up with a plan to grow the government, they need a plan to grow the middle class. >> question, was rubio for the gop? tim? >> he moved in the right direction. i don't think it was a great...
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president obama and congressional republicans traded new barbs, with automatic spending cuts set to begin this friday. wall street had one of its worst days of the year, amid signs that elections in italy produced no clear winner. the dow industrials fell 216 points. the surgeon general of the united states, c. everett koop died at 96. >> woodruff: online, we learn about one mans "cerebral" contribution to sceince. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: when doctors in 1953 removed a portion brain from the man known as "h.m.," they began what would become a half-century study into how human memory works. read about those discoveries on our science page. and on making sense, why raising the payroll tax ceiling must occur to help fix social security. and tonight on independent lens, a look into the world of one of the most outspoken artists of our time. "ai wei-wei: never sorry" airs at 10:00 p.m. on most pbs stations, check your local listing. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> suarez: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll talk to gloria st
president obama and congressional republicans traded new barbs, with automatic spending cuts set to begin this friday. wall street had one of its worst days of the year, amid signs that elections in italy produced no clear winner. the dow industrials fell 216 points. the surgeon general of the united states, c. everett koop died at 96. >> woodruff: online, we learn about one mans "cerebral" contribution to sceince. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: when doctors in...
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even though hard decisions on government spending cuts were
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a series of automatic spending cuts known as sequestration will take effect at the end of the week if a deal is not reached in congress. it is the latest round of political brinksmanship in washington. secretary kerry warns that is the biggest threat to american power abroad. i spoke to the head of the council of foreign relations. he joined me from new york. what does the secretary mean when he says that it is congress that is the biggest threat to american power abroad at the moment? >> it has the advantage of being true. unless the united states economy begins to grow, now growing at about 60% of our historic rate, less than 2% as opposed to 3%, we have unpredictablility. chances of growth are going to go down even further if kundera -- government spending is cut through sequestration. all these things add up. the politics of the united ownes -- we have our domestic politicians who are increasingly getting in the way of an economic recovery. >> to the practical impact that these automatic edge cuts might -- is it a practical impact that these automatic budget cuts might have, or is
a series of automatic spending cuts known as sequestration will take effect at the end of the week if a deal is not reached in congress. it is the latest round of political brinksmanship in washington. secretary kerry warns that is the biggest threat to american power abroad. i spoke to the head of the council of foreign relations. he joined me from new york. what does the secretary mean when he says that it is congress that is the biggest threat to american power abroad at the moment? >>...
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. >> we pray for an american attack, and that obama acts on his words. i support a military strike with all my heart. >> a short drive away, back in the city proper held by the regime, some better of citizens were spending friday here at the hotel pool. many see the rebels as dangerous islamists, and they said repeatedly that a secular syria was better than al qaeda's vision of the future. these women had decided not to leave the country. many of their friends had, either temporarily or long-term. >> are you nervous about your kids or yourself? that we wake up safely the next day, but we have to live day by day. the british and american say there is a simple solution here. >> give me one martin luther king, so i can walk behind him. give me one who says, i have a dream to make syria like this. >> do you think the americans are going to attack? .> i don't think so and if they did, it's not a good choice. i don't think that president obama -- i don't think that assad will stay on the side. >> damascus is getting a lot of the world's attention. this city fe
. >> we pray for an american attack, and that obama acts on his words. i support a military strike with all my heart. >> a short drive away, back in the city proper held by the regime, some better of citizens were spending friday here at the hotel pool. many see the rebels as dangerous islamists, and they said repeatedly that a secular syria was better than al qaeda's vision of the future. these women had decided not to leave the country. many of their friends had, either...
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we spend a lot of time chronicling the hits and misses on capitol hill. author and journalist robert kaiser writes about a little of both focusing on how lawmakers reshaped wall street regulations after the 2008 financial crisis. judy wood rough spoke to kaiser about his new book: act of congress, how america's essential institution works and how it doesn't. >> woodruff: bob kaiser, welcome to the newshour. the book, as we say, is act of congress. and you are very critical of congress in this book. you write about the principal preoccupation is politics instead of legislating, that members are skilled at politics but not at enacting laws and yet they were able to pass this big piece of legislation. >> thanks to two very talented chairmen, barney frank and chris dodd. they really knew how to make the system hum and they did it. but it was upsetting to me as a citizen to realize how few members understood the issues they were dealing with. these are of course extremely complicated financial matters. how banks work, how they're regulated, so on. not everybod
we spend a lot of time chronicling the hits and misses on capitol hill. author and journalist robert kaiser writes about a little of both focusing on how lawmakers reshaped wall street regulations after the 2008 financial crisis. judy wood rough spoke to kaiser about his new book: act of congress, how america's essential institution works and how it doesn't. >> woodruff: bob kaiser, welcome to the newshour. the book, as we say, is act of congress. and you are very critical of congress in...
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>> i think what obama could do-- and he hasn't done-- is spend a lot of time with members of congress. reagan -- >> rose: that's the story here. >> reagan respected congress. he respected that all those guys had been elected. he did respect them and he spent a lot of time with them. >> rose: he'd go right over their heads, wouldn't he? >> but he'd have tip to dinner, spend time with him, jim baker was the best there was. he would come to tip and give them heads up on what was coming next out of respect in the back room. "tell nobody about it." he'd go to his house. reagan was always sending signs of respect to tip, he knew they was co-branch of government and it was equal. none of this "i'm better than you." >> rose: back to the book, when you look at these two guys, are we simply looking at a time that will never again be? or is simply a question of the philosophy of the tea party members is one of, in their own minds, it's principle, principle principle? >> rose: >> well, i think there was a difference. i was looking at a tape of the "today" show april 10, 1985. bryant gumbel was st
>> i think what obama could do-- and he hasn't done-- is spend a lot of time with members of congress. reagan -- >> rose: that's the story here. >> reagan respected congress. he respected that all those guys had been elected. he did respect them and he spent a lot of time with them. >> rose: he'd go right over their heads, wouldn't he? >> but he'd have tip to dinner, spend time with him, jim baker was the best there was. he would come to tip and give them heads up...
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>> we really think that president obama won the campaign in the spring. and what is key is in the west wing, in late may his advisors basically told him we wan to spend the fall's budget right now, on a really tough tv assault against romney. and the president had to be convinced by the advisors to do this, and obviously he was thinking financially are we going to have that money in the fall or spend it now it was a risk but one that ultimately paid off for president obama. governor romney at that point was still trying to put together the pieces for his primary just ended. >> why didn't he respond? why didn't they refute the attacks about bain capitol? >> one of the issues was governor romney was just not willing to lend himself money as he was in 2008. there was a perception among his senior staff that he didn't want to be seen as buying the election. so in order for him to have gone toe-to-toe with obama at that point in time he would have had to use his own money and that wasn't even broached in the campaign. >> warner: one of the most fascinating thi
>> we really think that president obama won the campaign in the spring. and what is key is in the west wing, in late may his advisors basically told him we wan to spend the fall's budget right now, on a really tough tv assault against romney. and the president had to be convinced by the advisors to do this, and obviously he was thinking financially are we going to have that money in the fall or spend it now it was a risk but one that ultimately paid off for president obama. governor...
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administration has repeatedly pressed congress to increase spending on bridges and roads. in march, the president visited the port of miami. >> we still got too many roads that are in disrepair, too many bridges that aren't safe. we don't have to accept that for america. we can do better. we can build better. >> ifill: but republicans, led by house speaker john boehner, have resisted spending more unless it's paid for. >> it's easy to go out there and be santa claus and talk about all these things you want to give away, but, at some point, somebody's got to pay the bill. >> ifill: federal officials estimate it would take about $20 billion a year to address all of the nation's bridge problems over each of 15 years. that's about $8 billion more than federal, state and local governments spend now. we take up some of the questions raised by all this now with two people who watch this field. casey dinges is the senior managing director of the american society of civil engineers. and dan mcnichol is an author and infrastructure analyst. he's spent the past year writing the histo
administration has repeatedly pressed congress to increase spending on bridges and roads. in march, the president visited the port of miami. >> we still got too many roads that are in disrepair, too many bridges that aren't safe. we don't have to accept that for america. we can do better. we can build better. >> ifill: but republicans, led by house speaker john boehner, have resisted spending more unless it's paid for. >> it's easy to go out there and be santa claus and talk...